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Mon, December 13, 2010
Fri, December 10, 2010 Market Maker Surveillance Report. BEC, SLE, THC, IRM, PFE, CMCSA, Bullishly Biased Price Friction For Friday, December 10th 20
December 10, 2010 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for Friday. Since October 2008 market makers are now required to be on the bid as much as they are on the offer and for like amounts of stock. This Fair Market Making Requirement is designed to prevent market makers from manipulating stock prices. On Friday there were 2415 companies with "abnormal" market making, 3440 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2010 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with Abnormal Price Friction (bullish bias) in their stock prices. This means that there was more selling than buying in the stocks and their stock prices rose. BECKMAN COULTER INC (NYSE:BEC), SARA LEE CORP (NYSE:SLE), TENET HEALTHCARE CORP (NYSE:THC), IRON MOUNTAIN INC (NYSE:IRM), PFIZER INC (NYSE:PFE), COMCAST CORP-CLASS A (NASDAQ:CMCSA). To access Friction Factor, Naked Short Data and SqueezeTrigger Prices on all stocks please visit http://www.buyins.net .
Market Maker Friction Factor is shown in the chart below:
Symbol Change Percent Buy Volume Buy %% Sell Volume Sell %% Net Volume Friction
BEC $14.880 26.06% 5,509,352 39.20% 6,959,518 49.52% -1,450,166 Abnormal
SLE $0.160 1.01% 3,128,310 39.27% 4,701,652 59.03% -1,573,342 Abnormal
THC $2.400 55.94% 105,264,414 43.87% 108,441,502 45.20% -3,177,088 Abnormal
IRM $0.100 0.43% 776,455 19.95% 2,951,368 75.82% -2,174,913 Abnormal
PFE $0.240 1.44% 17,889,312 41.91% 20,201,171 47.33% -2,311,859 Abnormal
CMCSA $0.430 2.07% 10,997,039 45.07% 13,351,495 54.73% -2,354,456 Abnormal
Analysis of the Friction Factor chart above shows that each of the six stocks mentioned above had more selling than buying on Friday and their stock prices rose. The Friction Factor displays how many more shares of buying than selling are required to move a stock higher by one cent or how many more shares of selling than buying moves a stock lower by 1 cent.
For example, the chart above shows CMCSA with 2,354,456 greater shares of selling than buying (NetVol) and the stock price was up $0.43000. This means the Market Makers were trading the stock in a way inconsistent with normal supply and demand (Economics 101); more selling than buying should cause prices to drop.
BECKMAN COULTER INC (NYSE:BEC) - Beckman Coulter, Inc. provides biomedical testing instrument systems, tests, and supplies for clinical laboratories worldwide. The company manufactures chemistry systems, such as routine chemistry systems that use electrochemical detection, chemical reactions with patient samples to detect and quantify substances of diagnostic interest in blood, urine, and other body fluids; and point of care testing products comprising rapid diagnostic test kits and hematology instruments that give physicians information to manage patients. It also provides immunoassay systems performing tests that assess thyroid function, screen and monitor for cancer and cardiac risk, provide information in fertility and reproductive testing, and monitor factors associated with anemia, blood viruses, and infectious disease; and molecular diagnostics that includes testing for infectious diseases, genetic diseases and disorders, human cancers, and pharmacogenics. In addition, Beckman Coulter offers cellular analysis for clinicians, such as hematology systems to study formed elements in blood, such as red and white blood cells and platelets; coagulation systems offering information to diagnose bleeding and clotting disorders and to monitor anticoagulant therapy; and flow cytometry systems used in applications in basic research, clinical research, drug discovery, and clinical diagnostics testing. The companys life science products and services comprise life sciences automation products, centrifugation, and capillary electrophoresis. It sells its products through sales organizations and independent distributors to hospitals, physicians offices, reference laboratories, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, universities, medical schools, and research institutions. The company was formerly known as Beckman Instruments, Inc. and changed its name to Beckman Coulter, Inc. in April 1998. Beckman Coulter, Inc. was founded in 1934 and is headquartered in Brea, California.
SARA LEE CORP (NYSE:SLE) - Sara Lee Corporation engages in the manufacture and marketing of a range of branded packaged meat products, fresh and frozen bakery products, roast and ground coffee, and tea products worldwide. Its packaged meat products include hot dogs and corn dogs, breakfast sausages and sandwiches, smoked and dinner sausages, premium deli and luncheon meats, bacon, and cooked ham. The company sells these products under Hillshire Farm, Ball Park, Jimmy Dean, Sara Lee, and State Fair brands. It offers fresh and frozen baked products, which comprise bread, buns, bagels, rolls, muffins, specialty bread, frozen pies, cakes, cheesecakes, and other desserts under Sara Lee, Earth Grains, and regional and local brand names. Sara Lee also provides roast, ground, and liquid coffee; cappuccinos; and lattes, as well as hot and iced teas under Douwe Egberts, Senseo, Maison du Cafe, Marcilla, Merrild, and Pickwick brands. The company sells its products to mass retailers, supermarkets, mass merchandisers, distributors, restaurants, hospitals, warehouse clubs, national chains, and other institutions through direct sales force and outside brokers. The company was formerly known as Consolidated Foods Corporation and changed its name to Sara Lee Corporation in 1985. Sara Lee Corporation was founded in 1939 and is based in Downers Grove, Illinois.
TENET HEALTHCARE CORP (NYSE:THC) - Tenet Healthcare Corporation, an investor-owned health care services company, operates general hospitals and related health care facilities. The companys general hospitals offer acute care services, radiology services, and respiratory therapy services, as well as operate operating and recovery rooms, and clinical laboratories and pharmacies. It also provides intensive care, critical care and/or coronary care units, and physical therapy; orthopedic, oncology, and outpatient services; tertiary care services, such as open-heart surgery, neonatal intensive care, and neuroscience; quaternary care in areas, including heart, lung, liver, and kidney transplants; gamma-knife brain surgery; cyberknife surgery for tumors and lesions in the brain, lung, neck, and spine; and bone marrow transplants. As of December 31, 2008, Tenet Healthcare Corporation operated 53 general hospitals; and a critical access hospital with a combined total of 14,352 licensed beds serving urban and rural communities. The company also operated various related health care facilities, including a rehabilitation hospital; a long-term acute care hospital; a skilled nursing facility; various medical office buildings; and physician practices, captive insurance companies, and other ancillary health care businesses, such as outpatient surgery centers, diagnostic imaging centers, and occupational and rural health care clinics, as well as owned interests in two health maintenance organizations. It has a joint venture agreement with MED3000 Inc. to provide services to physician practices. The company was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas with additional offices in Santa Ana, California; Coral Springs, Florida; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
IRON MOUNTAIN INC (NYSE:IRM) - Iron Mountain Incorporated provides information management and related services for various media in North America, Europe, Latin America, and the Asia Pacific. It offers records management, data protection and recovery, and information destruction services. The records management services include records management program development and implementation to help customers comply with specific regulatory requirements; implementation of policy-based programs that feature secure storage for media consisting of paper, flexible retrieval access, and retention management; digital archiving and related services for secure long-term archiving of electronic records; and specialized services for vital records and regulated industries, such as healthcare, energy, government, and financial services. The data protection and recovery services comprise disaster preparedness, planning, support and secure, and off-site vaulting of data backup media for data recovery in the event of a disaster, human error, or virus; online backup and recovery solutions for desktop and laptop computers and remote servers; and technology escrow services to protect and manage source code and other proprietary information. The information destruction services include secure shredding services, such as hardcopy records management services and shredding of sensitive documents for corporate customers. The company also sells corrugated cardboard storage cartons; and provides consulting, facilities management, fulfillment, and other outsourcing services. It serves commercial, legal, banking, healthcare, accounting, insurance, entertainment, and government organizations. The company was founded in 1951 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
PFIZER INC (NYSE:PFE) - Pfizer Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, engages in the discovery, development, manufacture, and marketing of prescription medicines for humans and animals worldwide. The companys Biopharmaceutical segment offers products in the areas of primary care, specialty care, established products, emerging markets, and oncology customer-focused units. Its principal products include Lipitor for elevated cholesterol levels in the blood; Norvasc for hypertension; Caduet for cardiovascular events; Chantix/Champix for smoking cessation; Lyrica for neuropathic pain; Revatio for pulmonary arterial hypertension; Geodon/Zeldox, a psychotropic agent; and Aricept for Alzheimers disease. This segments products also comprise Celebrex for osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis and acute pain; Zyvox for Gram-positive pathogens; Viagra for erectile dysfunction; Detrol/ Detrol LA for overactive bladder; Sutent for advanced renal cell carcinoma; Xalatan for open-angle glaucoma and ocular hypertension; Genotropin for growth disorders; Vfend, an antifungal agent; Effexor for depressive disorders; Prevnar/Prevnar7 for invasive pneumococcal disease; Enbrel for rheumatoid arthritis; Protonix, proton pump inhibitor for erosive esophagitis; and Spiriva for breathing problems. The companys Diversified segment offers animal health products, which include antibiotics, anti-inflammatories, antiemetics, parasiticides, and vaccines; consumer healthcare products comprising dietary supplements, pain management, respiratory, and topicals/gastro-intestinal products; Nutrition products; and Capsugel products that include gelatin, liquid, softgel, non-animal, and fish gelatin capsules. Pfizer Inc. serves doctors, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, pharmacists, hospitals, pharmacy benefit managers, managed care organizations, and government agencies. It has a strategic alliance with Acacia Living Inc. The company was founded in 1849 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
COMCAST CORP-CLASS A (NASDAQ:CMCSA) - Comcast Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides consumer entertainment, information, and communication products and services to the residential and commercial customers in the United States. The company operates in two segments, Cable and Programming. The Cable segment manages and operates cable systems, including video, high-speed Internet, and phone services, as well as regional sports and news networks. Its video services include analog, digital, on demand, and high-definition television and/or digital video recorders. This segments high-speed Internet service consists of an interactive portal, Comcast.net, which provides multiple email addresses and online storage, as well as various proprietary content, and value-added features and enhancements. Its phone services include voice over Internet protocol digital phone service that provides local and domestic long-distance calling with various features, such as voice mail, caller ID, and call waiting services. The Programming segment operates national programming networks consisting of E!, The Golf Channel, VERSUS, G4, and Style. The company also develops and operates Internet businesses focused on entertainment, information, and communication, including Comcast.net, Fancast, thePlatform, Fandango, Plaxo, and DailyCandy; and owns two professional sports teams and a multipurpose arena, as well as provides facilities management services, including food services, for sporting events, concerts, and other events. As of December 31, 2009, Comcast Corporation served approximately 23.6 million video customers, 15.9 million high-speed Internet customers, and 7.6 million phone customers, as well as approximately 50.6 million homes in 39 states and the District of Columbia. The company was founded in 1969 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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